The Quad Urbanist
An Urbanist Blog from the Quad Cities
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Geographical and Diagrammatic System Maps
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A long-lasting concern in communicating transit to the public is how to best package the information: whether to do something like the iconi...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
How Late is Late? How Early is Early?
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One thing that I constantly find myself thinking when I visit larger cities than the QCA is that things are just open later. Now, that'...
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Don't Sleep on the REM
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Pun in the title aside, I did get to go to Montréal and I do like the REM, their new "light rail" that is really just an automate...
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
The Good and Bad of Houses
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So as I mentioned in my last post, there's a bit of a blind spot to this blog sometimes, which is that while urbanism is about how peop...
Sunday, July 5, 2026
American Transportation
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The 250th anniversary celebration of the US seems like as good a time as any to think about how the US stacks up globally in terms of this b...
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Seeing Cars from Transit
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There's nothing quite like being on a train and looking out at the cars that you're passing. Conversely, there's little more an...
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